Modi has become the idol of Indian people, Jethmalani tells Aap Ki Adalat
New Delhi, July 13: Expelled BJP MP and noted lawyer Ram Jethmalani has said, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi has become the "idol of the people"."Wherever I go, at airports, railway stations, colleges and courts,
"Some 58 to 60 people in a train were burnt alive (in Godhra). The Congress said, the people died because of a burning stove. Who are they fooling? If a stove burns, people will jump out of the coach. Here the people were burnt inside a closed railway coach.
"Even the SIT appointed by the Supreme Court said some rascals indulged in arson because they wanted to defame India because of tension on Indo-Pak border. And, Hindus are not keedas (insects), who will not retaliate", said Jethmalani.
"Burning is the most cruel form of killing. Modi had just taken over as chief minister. He can't control each and every police station.
"Even the wife of ex-Congress MP Ehsan Jafri rang me up during the riots, and I asked the then Defence Minister George Fernandes to send in the army. Nobody is blaming Fernandes, but everybody is blaming Modi", said the expelled BJP MP.
Jethmalani described the Congress as the most communal party which divides people. "What about the Congress leaders' role in 1984 anti-Sikh riots? At least, Modi didn't go and give the orders to mobs in Gujarat. Congress leaders are practitioners of genocide."